Ron Miller

Enterprise Reporter, TechCrunch

Ron Miller has been writing about the enterprise at TechCrunch since 2014.

Previously, he was a long-time Contributing Editor at EContent Magazine. Past regular gigs included CITEworld, DaniWeb, TechTarget, Internet Evolution and FierceContentManagement.

Disclosures:

Ron was formerly corporate blogger for Intronis where he wrote once weekly on IT issues. He has contributed to various corporate blogs in the past including Ness, Novell and the IBM Mid-market Blogger Program.

Ron Miller

Salesforce had a better quarter than expected, but it’s reporting and forecasting those results based on prior work, to a real degree.

Lowering costs nets Salesforce a profitable quarter, but can it keep it up?

About the time that Floworks co-founders Sudipta Biswas and Sarthak Shrivastava were starting at Y Combinator in the Winter 23 cohort, they had a chat with veteran investor Vinod Khosla,…

Floworks is building an AI assistant to change how workers interact with software

Since the release of ChatGPT at the end of last year, we’ve seen companies developing generative AI tooling to help customers interact with their products and services in a more…

Context.ai wants to merge product analytics sensibilities with LLMs

Whether you’re building a chip or an airplane, you need to measure the effectiveness of the product at each step of the manufacturing process, much like you do with developing…

Flojoy is bringing no-code Python testing to industrial instrumentation

Google launched Kubernetes back in 2014 as an open source project to help manage containers. Over time, as it has become a cloud-native mainstay, the company has continued to support…

Google introduces GKE Enterprise to help companies manage complex Kubernetes environments

Today at Google Cloud Next, the company announced several new generative AI enhancements to its security product line in an effort to make it easier to find information from a…

Google is bringing generative AI to its security tooling

Earlier this month HashiCorp announced it was changing the open source license it uses for Terraform and its other developer tools. The change triggered an uproar in the open source…

Splinter group officially launches OpenTF fork of HashiCorp Terraform

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Nvidia is flying high thanks to AI

When Nvidia reported earnings this week with three-digit growth, it put extra pressure on the company to continue performing at a high level.

2:07 pm PDT • August 24, 2023
Nvidia is flying high thanks to AI

When Panobi co-founder Merci Grace began running growth at Slack in 2015, she helped grow the user base from 50,000 to more than 3 million in just a couple of…

Former head of growth at Slack is building a growth-tracking platform for everyone

As companies move to the cloud, keeping data secure is always front of mind. While Google is quick to point out that it has never had an exploit in Google…

Google plans to bring AI-fueled security enhancements to Google Workspace

The customer data platform provides a central place to collect first-party information about customers, but simply having a pile of data is not the point. Companies want to put it…

Twilio Segment teams with Amazon SageMaker on new customer predictions product

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Chronic technical debt could be holding your company back

Companies mired in tech debt, with older, brittle systems, could face big issues when game changing technologies come along.

9:00 am PDT • August 22, 2023
Chronic technical debt could be holding your company back

In 2021, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced a comprehensive modernization strategy he dubbed IDM (integrated device manufacturing) 2.0. As part of that vision, the company announced a $20 billion investment…

Intel’s modernization strategy could face setback with end of $5.4B Tower deal

Arthur, a machine learning monitoring startup, has benefited from the interest in generative AI this year, and it has been developing tools to help companies work with LLMs more effectively.…

Arthur releases open source tool to help companies find the best LLM for a job

Apica, a 17-year-old Swedish company, helps companies test applications using synthetic data. Today, Apica announced it has acquired Logiq.ai to help expand beyond purely testing into post-production monitoring, an approach…

Apica acquires Logiq.ai to bring together observability and synthetic data

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The tech jobs market is as strong as it ever was

It may feel like the tech jobs market is in the doldrums, but the data suggests that it could be much more robust than you think.

11:00 am PDT • August 15, 2023
The tech jobs market is as strong as it ever was

Traditionally, companies looking to extract data from websites have had to create custom code to get at the data, an expensive and time-consuming process that is often out of reach…

Browse AI helps companies build bots to scrape website data and put it to work

AI has been has hot as it comes since the start of the year, but the question remains whether it’s a product category or a platform piece.

Sure AI is hot, but is it an actual market or a platform piece?

When a major system incident occurs, there is a ton of online and offline communication going on — or at least there should be. The online part creates a digital…

Jeli is bringing generative AI to incident report analysis

Electronic signature has become table stakes for companies involved in document storage and management. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Google announced an open beta of its new-ish…

Google opens eSignature beta for Google Docs and Google Drive

Like most software, Slack developed over time adding a slew of new features like Huddles, Canvas and workflows. But like any piece of software that is over a decade old…

Slack gets interface makeover with a more unified approach including dedicated DMs

The customer data platform (CDP) has become a standard way to collect first-party customer data and put it to work. Simon Data, which was founded in 2015, has always had…

Simon Data is putting customer data to work with $54M Series D

Thomson Reuters has been around since the 19th century, but it’s not stuck there, embracing AI as a way to help customers and employees.

How Thomson Reuters is leveraging AI to enhance productivity, rather than replace jobs

Amazon has seen AWS growth rates dropping substantially over the last three quarters, from 20% to 16% to 12% this quarter. That’s not the kind of trend any company wants…

AWS revenue growth dropped to 12% in Q2, but company remains optimistic about cloud biz

Cloud growth has been slowing for a number of reasons this year. Some of it has to do with macroeconomic headwinds causing customers to look to cut their cloud bills,…

Even as cloud growth continues to slow, market remains robust in Q2 at $65B

Salesforce introduced its AI layer, dubbed Einstein, in 2016. More recently, at the Salesforce World Tour event in NYC in May, all the company talked about was generative AI and…

Salesforce Einstein Studio lets you bring your own model, starting with Amazon SageMaker

Long before people were talking about ChatGPT and generative AI, companies like Datasaur were dealing with the nuts and bolts of building machine learning models, helping label things to train…

Datasaur lets you build a model automatically from a set of labels

Python enjoys great popularity with developers, which is why the founders of Reflex chose it as the basis for their low-code web app development platform. The startup, formerly known as…

Reflex open source tool helps turn Python code into web apps

We all know how important data quality is. That’s where the timeless phrase “Garbage in, garbage out” came from. As the pace of data creation accelerates, and it gets used…

Lightup wants to shine a light on data quality with $9M Series A

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Tech spending has remained surprisingly stable in 2023

As we approach the middle of the third quarter, we take a look at how last year’s spending predictions have panned out to this point.

8:00 am PDT • July 31, 2023
Tech spending has remained surprisingly stable in 2023